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Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Action Thriller • Action • Combat Films
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Mike Figgis • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
Addiction Drama • Drama • Prostitution Film
3
Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
4
Robert Rossen • Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Drama • Political Satire • Satire
5
Federico Fellini • Starring: Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Ciccio Ingrassia
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
6
Michel Hazanavicius • Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
7
Anthony Harvey • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Griffith, Peter O'Toole
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
8
Elia Kazan • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
9
Billy Wilder • Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Addiction Drama • Drama • Film Noir
10
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
11
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
12
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Comedy Drama • Drama • Showbiz Drama
13
Bob Rafelson • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Drama • Family Drama • New Hollywood
14
Todd Haynes • Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Patricia Clarkson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
15
Kelly Reichardt • Starring: John Magaro, Orion Lee, René Auberjonois
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Female-Directed Film
16
Frank Capra • Starring: George Bancroft, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Americana • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
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Jim Sheridan • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Kirsten Sheridan
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
18
John Huston • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia
Black Comedy • Comedy • Crime Comedy
19
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
20
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
21
David Fincher • Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
22
Ang Lee • Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
23
Costa-Gavras • Starring: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
24
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
25
Robert Redford • Starring: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes
Americana • Docudrama • Drama
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Alfonso Cuarón • Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Biopic • Drama • Family Drama
27
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
28
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Biopic • Crime Drama
29
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann
Drama • Ensemble Film • Family Drama
30
David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi • Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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David Lean • Starring: Judy Davis, James Fox, Peggy Ashcroft
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Period Film
33
Warren Beatty • Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
34
Alexander Payne • Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Lawrence Kasdan • Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
36
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro
Addiction Drama • Based-on-Television • Crime Drama
37
Todd Field • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
38
William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
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Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
40
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Robert Altman • Starring: Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Satire
42
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler
Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama
43
Robert Redford • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
44
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Western
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Todd Haynes • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
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Greta Gerwig • Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts
49
George Cukor • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Gladys Cooper
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical Comedy
50
James L. Brooks • Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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David O. Russell • Starring: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
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Paul Greengrass • Starring: Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson
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François Truffaut • Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
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Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
57
Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
58
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
60
Richard Linklater • Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
61
Damien Chazelle • Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
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Robert Altman • Starring: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine
Americana • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Dystopian Film • Juvenile Delinquency Film
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
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Robert Benton • Starring: Howard Duff, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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William Wyler • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
70
James L. Brooks • Starring: William Hurt, Joan Cusack, Albert Brooks
Comedy Drama • Media Satire • Romance
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
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Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • New Hollywood
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Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise • Starring: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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